Further Reading

There are a number of contemporary studies that outline Hutterite life and history. Among the most recent are Leonard Gross, The Golden Years of the Hutterites: The Witness and Thought of the Communal Moravian Anabaptists during the Walpot Era, 1565–1578 (Scottdale, Penn., 1980); John Hofer, The History of the Hutterites (Altona, Man., 1988); John A. Hostetler, Hutterite Society (Baltimore, 1974); Karl A. Peter, The Dynamics of Hutterite Society: An Analytical Approach (Edmonton, 1987); John Ryan, The Agricultural Economy of Manitoba Hutterite Colonies (Toronto, 1977); and Peter H. Stephenson, The Hutterian People: Ritual and Rebirth in the Evolution of Communal Life (Lanham, Md., 1991).

There are other scholarly articles and monographs deserving of mention. These include John W. Bennett, “Social Theory and the Social Order of the Hutterian Community,” Mennonite Weekly Review, vol.51 (1977), 292–307; Edward D. Boldt, “Structural Tightness, Autonomy, and Observations: An Analysis of Hutterite Conformity and Orderliness,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol.3 (1978), 349–63; idem., “Maintaining Ethnic Boundaries: The Case of the Hutterites,” in R.M. Bienvenue and J.E. Goldstein, eds., Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Canada (Toronto, 1985); William Janzen, Limits of Liberty: The Experience of Mennonite, Hutterite, and Doukhobor Communities in Canada (Toronto, 1990); Jeff Longhofer, “All Things in Common?: A Contingent Nature of Communalism among the Hutterites,” Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol.11 (1993), 174–93; Arthur P. Mange, “The Population Structure of a Human Isolate,” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1963); Karl A. Peter, “The Decline of Hutterite Population Growth,” Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol.12 (1980), 97–110; Shirin and Eduard Schludermann, “Personality Development in Hutterite Communal Society,” in Leo Driedger, ed., The Canadian Ethnic Mosaic: A Quest for Identity (Toronto, 1978), 169–86.